14 Facts About Charles Matchett

Charles Horatio Matchett was an American socialist politician.

Charles Matchett is best remembered as the first candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America for Vice President of the United States in the election of 1892 and as the party's candidate for president in the election of 1896.

Charles Matchett was the descendant of New Englanders dating their presence in America to the 1630s.

At the age of 16, Matchett went to sea and circumnavigated Cape Horn aboard a windjammer.

Charles Matchett worked at various times in his earlier years as a United States Navy sailor, a clerk, carpenter, and beer bottler.

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In 1890, Charles Matchett was the organizer of American Branch No 1 of Section New York of the Socialist Labor Party of America.

Charles Matchett was influential in bringing many of the New York Nationalists into the ranks of the party.

In 1896, Charles Matchett headed the Socialist Labor Party ticket as its candidate for President of the United States.

When Charles Matchett ran in 1896 he was the foreman for the telephone company in New York making $18 per week.

Charles Matchett left the Socialist Labor Party during the organization's bitter 1899 split and joined the organization headed by Henry Slobodin and Morris Hillquit which merged with the Chicago-based Social Democratic Party of America in the summer of 1901 to form the Socialist Party of America.

In 1903, Charles Matchett ran for the New York Court of Appeals on the ticket of the SPA, receiving 33,339 votes.

Charles Matchett was a candidate for New York State Assembly and New York City Council at various times.

Charles Matchett was a pioneer in the United States of the international language Esperanto and a delegate to the first Universal Congress of Esperantists in 1905.

Charles Matchett died October 24,1919, in Allston, Massachusetts, after a long illness.